Apparently, your pricey professional wedding photographer was a giant waste of money.
Chris Galvin and Jessica Pearson have learned the hard way that you don’t need to hire your very own professional paparazzi to capture your big day.
Sam Yeldham was just walking though Bradley’s Head in Sydney Harbour, when he saw a newlywed couple in a loving embrace as the sun broke through a somewhat stormy sky.
It was an image too spectacular to pass up, so being a deft hand at photography himself, Yeldham snapped a photograph of the couple.
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To get consistently amazing candid photojournalistic moments is an art, I think it is much harder than posing. I have photographed over 300 weddings and spent years training people and myself to be professionally consistent photojournalistic wedding photographers;
Training new photographers, even out of Uni won't get amazing photos instantly every time, it usually take around 50 to 60 wedding before they are ready to even think about tackling a wedding on their own.
Yes if you want to risk everything falling into place and your friends lucking out on your day go for it.
Would you rather 'hire' get a random who doesn't have passion or anything on the line to document arguably the most special day of your life or A passionate professional photographer that spends hours every night researching, doing work shops, practising in all light condition just to better themselves.
Considering the average full time wedding photographer works 90 hours and week & these days on average books around 15 to 25 weddings, I wouldn't consider them over priced at all; Granted I have seen alot of 'dodgey' photographers out there... so do your home work and pick wisely. But that goes from people an all industries from teachers to sales men to engineers etc
We don't cost squillions.
We don't spend all day asking you to "lift our chins, arch our elbows and ‘look into each other’s eyes".
We aren't paparazzi.
We aren't a waste of money.
This couple haven't "learned anything the hard way". They hired a professional to document their day. This bloke made one viral photograph.
That's not wedding photography.
Thanks for dragging out the wedding photography tropes Mamamia, we really need the bad rap!